Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 844-100, Abel Getchell, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Getchell, Abel
B.L. Wt. 844-100.
CONTENTS

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The heirs of Abel Getchell private 12th Regiment Mass: line —
Warrant issued Dec. 29 th 1819 —
B. A. Mackall atty.

Seth Getchell, heir of Abel Getchell, deceased,
See the records 1810.
See the records 1810.
The records of the town of Mendon, Mass. show that Abel Getchell was admitted to the freedom of the town in 1740.
The records of the town of Mendon, Mass. show that Abel Getchell was admitted to the freedom of the town in 1740.
The records of the town of Mendon, Mass. show that Abel Getchell was admitted to the freedom of the town in 1740.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts county of Kennebec ss
The undersigned Judge of Probate within & for said county do hereby certify & make known that it has been Satisfactorily made to appear to me that Seth Gatchell of Waterville in said county now in full life is son, the only surviving child & the heir at law of Abel Gatchell late of Berwick in the county of York, and late a Soldier in the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War for Independence deceased, (who was slain in battle as it is alleged)
And that the said Seth Gatchell residing in Waterville aforesaid is the sole legal heir at law in the real estate of the said Abel Gatchell deceased according to the laws of this State.
Given under my hand & the seal of our court of probate at Augusta in said county of Kennebec June 25. 1819.
D. D. D. Judge

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Know all men by these presents that I Seth Gitchell of Waterville in the County of Kennebec and District of Maine, one of the heirs at law of Abel Gitchell formerly of Berwick in the county of York  Lincoln in said District of Maine, late a private in Capt Silas Burbanks company and Col. Samuel Brewers Regiment of the Massachusetts troops, in the war of the revolution against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, and who was slain therein, have constituted and appointed, and by these presents constitute and appoint, Brooke Mackall of the borough of Georgetown in the District of Columbia, Esquire, my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, and to my use to ask and receive from the proper officer of Government the certificate of bounty lands to which I and the other heirs at law of the said Abel Gitchell are entitled on account of the services of the said Abel Abel's services in the war of the revolution, and upon receipt thereof to sign and execute all necessary discharges and acquittances therefor in as full and ample manner as I could do were I personally present. Herby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said Attorney may lawfully do for me in the premises. — In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my seal this fifth  Eleventh day of November  December , one thousand eight hundred & nineteen.
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Fins. Boutelle James Starkpole
SETH GITCHELL

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Kennebec ss.
Be it known that on this Eleventh day of December, one thousand eight-hundred and nineteen, personally appeared before me Asa Redington Junr, Esq: one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County
the within named Seth Getchell, to me well known, and executed the within Instrument, in the presence of myself and of Timothy Boutelle Esq & Mr. James Stackpole Esq: the subscribing witnesses thereto, persons also well known to me, who subscribed their names as witnesses thereto at the same time. And the said Seth Getchell, did then and there acknowledge the within Instrument by him signed and sealed, to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Asa Redington Junr, Justice of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Kennebec ss. —
I John Davis, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, held within the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that Asa Redington Junior, Esq. before whom the annexed proceedings were had, is a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Kennebec.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the County Seal, at Augusta, this eleventh day of December 1819. —
John Davis

The heirs of Abel Gitchell
Ms. A. 9. 2. 16 No 844 —

Department of War Pension Office May 18 th 1828
I hereby certify that it appears from the archives of this Office that Abel Getchell, of the 12 th Regiment of the Massachusetts line, enlisted March 1 st 1777 for the term of "during the War" and was killed in battle October 7 th 1777
J. L. Edwards

Salathiel Penny of lawful age do depose, testify and say that in the year of our Lord one Seventeen hundred and seve- nty seven Mr. Abel Getchell then of Berwick in the County of York District of Maine, enlisted into the army of the revolution. I had before that time been long acquainted with said Getchell. In the month of October or September in the same year said Getchell joined Genl Gates army, in Col. Silas Burbanks company in Col. Samuel Brewers 12th regiment. I was then in the army under Col. Merrill of the same regiment and had been several months previous. I saw Mr. Getchell, aforesaid, my old acquaintance and conversed much with him on his coming into the army - and particularly enquired of him concerning my friends who lived in his neighborhood. I recollect seeing Mr. Getchell actually doing service the two or three days after he arrived in the army and I saw him with the regiment marching into the field of battle at a place called Beman's Light on the North river about two miles above Still-water. It was at this place he joined the army. In this battle he was killed by a grape shot through the head. I did not see him after his death, but three of our company buried him. One of my mess mates told me repeatedly both in the army & since that the head of said Getchell when he was killed, fell between his feet when advancing up to a log breast work. My said mess mate's name was Nelson Hill of S d Berwick.

It was in the afternoon of the third day after Mr. Getchell joined the army, that he was killed aforesaid. I do not know certainly that he told me whether he enlisted during the war or not; but I have always had up to this very day an impression and belief that he enlisted for and during the war. For after my return I was told so by the neighbors. — I myself enlisted for the war and a great part of the regiment enlisted (as I always understood) for the war. — Mr. Seth Getchell now of Waterville Dist. of Maine was a son to said Abel Getchell and brought up in his father's family, where I knew intimately, and I have ever since been acquainted with him — Though I did not see said Abel Getchell when he was killed, on the next day three of my company told me they had buried said Getchell, being men who were acquainted with him. I have ever since been acquainted with the family and it never was denied nor doubted that said Abel Getchell was killed as aforesaid —
And further the deponent saith not.
Sylvester G. Merrill

Kennebec Is. - June 14. 1819 -
Be it known that on this day the aforesaid Salathiel Penny (to me well known) personally appeared and was examined and cautioned concerning the matters contained in the aforesaid deposition by him subscribed - and made sol- emn oath that said deposition is true. -
Before me - Asa Redington Jr Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Kennebec Is:
I, John Davis Esq Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, held within the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify that Asa Redington Junior Esq before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time the same was taken, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Kennebec, and that the above is his proper signature. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the County Seal, at Augusta, in the county of Kennebec, this first day of December, Anno Domini 1819. -
John Davis